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Published January 23, 2013 by Canadian Real Estate Association The Bank of Canada announced on January 23rd, 2013 that it is keeping its key policy interest rate at 1 per cent, where it has been held for more than two years. In providing guidance on where interest ...

OTTAWA –December 17, 2012 – The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has updated its forecast for home sales activity via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate Boards and Associations in 2012 and 2013. When CREA’s resale housing forecast was published in September, activity showed ...

OTTAWA – February 15, 2012 – According to statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national resale housing activity retreated in January 2012 from the strong finish reported for December 2011. Highlights: Home sales were down 4.5% from December to January. Actual (not seasonally adjusted) ...

OTTAWA - October 17, 2011 - According to statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national resale housing activity picked up in September 2011. Highlights: Sales activity rose 2.7 per cent in September from the previous month. Holding in line with the ten-year average, activity during the first nine ...

OTTAWA - September 15, 2011 - According to statistics1 released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national resale housing activity in August 2011 remained stable for the second consecutive month. Highlights: • Sales activity was stable from July to August, but posted another big year-over-year gain ...

OTTAWA – August 16, 2011 – According to statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national resale housing activity was stable on a month-to-month basis in July following an uptick in June. Highlights: • Sales activity was stable from June to July, but posted a big year-over-year gain due to ...

OTTAWA - July 15, 2011 - According to statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), home sales activity over MLS® Systems of Canadian real estate Boards climbed in June 2011 compared to May. Highlights:Sales activity climbed from May to June, with a big year-over-year gain reflecting falling demand in June ...

OTTAWA, May 17th, 2011 – Statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), reveal that national resale housing activity softened in April when compared to March 2011. The decline in April sales activity reflects changes to mortgage regulations that came into effect previously. As anticipated, the changes ...

OTTAWA – May 9, 2011 – The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has revised its forecast for home sales activity via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate Boards and Associations for 2011 and 2012. “Home buyers expect mortgage interest rates to rise and are mindful of their current and ...

OTTAWA – April 15th, 2011 – According to statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national resale housing activity held steady in March 2011 compared to February. Seasonally adjusted national home sales activity in March came in one tenth of a percentage point above levels for the previous month, ...

Ottawa - March 15th, 2011 - According to statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national resale housing activity in February 2011 ran close to the five-year average for the month, continuing a theme that has characterized the past four months. Actual (not seasonally adjusted) national sales activity via the ...

Published February 8, 2011 CREANEWS.CA OTTAWA - February 8, 2011 - The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has revised its 2011 forecast for home sales activity via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate Boards and Associations, and extended it to 2012. Sales in the second half of 2010 rebounded faster ...

OTTAWA - November 15th, 2010 - National resale housing activity rose for the third consecutive month in October 2010, according to statistics released by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). Seasonally adjusted national home sales activity via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate Boards climbed 4.6 ...

Thursday, 11 November 2010 13:10 All signs point downward, in terms of residential property prices for 2011, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association. According to recent findings, prices are predicted to fall 1.3% in 2011 after a rise of 3.1% this year. Additionally, there is an expectation that sales numbers will continue to fall as ...

OTTAWA (August 16, 2010) - The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)says national home sales activity continued to trend down in July 2010. The decline was almost entirely the result of fewer sales in British Columbia and Ontario. A slowdown in demand in these two provinces had been widely expected in July, as many purchases were brought ...

OTTAWA - March 15, 2010 - With rising activity in Toronto offset by lower activity in Vancouver, the number of homes sold through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate Boards edged lower in February. In recent months, national sales activity has slowed while new listings continue to rise, resulting in a more ...

Karim Bardeesy, with files from The Canadian PressGlobe and Mail Update Last updated on Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 03:03PM EDT Canadians are still in the housing market as more homes were sold last month than any previous July on record. The Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday that 50,270 homes traded hands on the Multiple Listing Service ...

OTTAWA – July 14th, 2009 – National resale housing market activity bounced back strongly in the second quarter of 2009 above levels reported for the same period last year. Demand continues to rebound sharply in some of the most expensive markets in the country, skewing the national average price upward. According to statistics ...

Canadian Real Estate Association Published June 5, 2009 Overnight rate stays at 0.25 per cent The Bank of Canada held its benchmark overnight lending rate steady at 0.25 per cent at its setting on June 4th, 2009. The trend-setting Bank rate, which is set 0.25 percentage points above the overnight lending rate, remains at 0.5 per cent. The Bank ...

Third straight monthly increase puts numbers up 32 per cent from January's decade-long low, but still far below last yearHEATHER SCOFFIELD © The Globe and MailThursday, May 14, 2009 OTTAWA - Home sales soared in April for the third month in a row, but the real estate market has not yet made up for all the lost momentum of the past year, ...